Schedule:

Friday, February 2, 2024

7:30PM - 9:00PM - Adam Brakel, organ

Brakel, lauded by the Chicago Tribune as "one of the most talented organists in the world", will play an all-Bach program on the Knowles Memorial Chapel Organ.

Free and open to the public, this recital is made possible by Rollins College through the Faith Emeny Conger '54 Visiting Organist Concert Series in Honor of John Oliver Rich '38.

Seats for this concert are not assigned and are first come, first served. If you plan to attend, please RSVP by reserving a ticket.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

3:00PM - 4:30PM - Fuoco Obbligato, Visiting Artists

This Paris-based chamber ensemble invokes an expressive style that intertwines musicians and vocalists in an intimate performance. Fuoco Obbligato's repertoire spans from the Baroque era cantatas to 20th century folk song.

Tickets start at $30

Friday, February 9, 2024

7:30PM - 9:00PM - Bach Vocal Artists: The Splendor of Baroque Magnificats

John V. Sinclair, conductor Bach Vocal Artists

Grandeur and ingenuity abound through five Baroque era composers' settings of the Magnificat, a canticle of praise to Mary: Vivaldi, Telemann, Zelenka, Caldara and Heinecken. This program will feature the virtuosic ensemble, Bach Vocal Artists.

Tickets start at $15

Saturday, February 10, 2024

5:00PM - 6:30PM - Spiritual Spaces: Music to Reflect and Restore

John V. Sinclair, conductor, Bach Festival Chamber Choir and Orchestra

This profound and moving program, thoughtfully chosen each season by artistic director John V. Sinclair, features an uninterrupted series of classical and contemporary music works that encourages reflection and restoration.

Tickets start at $10

Saturday, February 17, 2024

7:30PM - 9:00PM - Moravec & Campbell: Sanctuary Road

John V. Sinclair, conductor, Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra

Laquita Mitchell, soprano; Melody Wilson, mezzo soprano; Joshua Blue, tenor; Benjamin Taylor, baritone; Dashon Burton, bass

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec collaborated with Pulitzer Prize - and GRAMMY Award-winning - lyricist Mark Campbell to create Sanctuary Road, which was nominated for a GRAMMY as Best New Choral Work in 2021. This poignant oratorio draws on the compelling stories in William Still's memoir, The Underground Railroad.

Also in this program: The Symphony No. 1 in e minor by Florence Price was completed in 1932 and first performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Price's first full-scale orchestral composition was the first symphony by an African American woman to be performed by a major American orchestra.

Tickets start at $15

Sunday, February 18, 2024

3:00PM - 4:30PM - Moravec & Campbell: Sanctuary Road

John V. Sinclair, conductor, Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra

Laquita Mitchell, soprano; Melody Wilson, mezzo soprano; Joshua Blue, tenor; Benjamin Taylor, baritone; Dashon Burton, bass

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec collaborated with Pulitzer Prize - and GRAMMY Award-winning - lyricist Mark Campbell to create Sanctuary Road, which was nominated for a GRAMMY as Best New Choral Work in 2021. This poignant oratorio draws on the compelling stories in William Still's memoir, The Underground Railroad.

Also in this program: The Symphony No. 1 in e minor by Florence Price was completed in 1932 and first performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Price's first full-scale orchestral composition was the first symphony by an African American woman to be performed by a major American orchestra.

Tickets start at $15

Saturday, February 24, 2024

7:30PM - 9:00PM - Concertos by Candlelight

John V. Sinclair, conductor, Bach Festival Orchestra

Alon Goldstein, piano, Routa Kroumovitch and Alvaro Gomez, violins

The Concertos by Candlelight program is a perennial favorite of Bach Festival audiences. Guest artist Alon Goldstein, whose performances have been described as "lively, bursting with energy, yet also poetic," (Der Westen, Bochum Germany) returns to Knowles Chapel to perform Brahms' incomparable Piano Concerto No. 1.

The husband-and-wife team of Routa Kroumovitch and Alvaro Gomez, violinists, are familiar to patrons as co-concert masters of the Bach Festival Orchestra. Performing as a duo around the world, Kroumovitch and Gomez bring artistry to a level that can only be achieved through years of collaborative music-making. They will perform the Concertante in A Major for Two Violins, Op. 48, by Louis Spohr.

Tickets start at $25

Sunday, February 25, 2024

3:00PM - 4:30PM - J.S. Bach Magnificat in D Major, G.F. Handel's Countertenor Arias

John V. Sinclair, conductor, Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra

Anna Eschbach, soprano; Morgan Peckels, mezzo soprano; John Grau, tenor; Stephen Mumbert, bass; Brennan Hall, soloist

This program celebrates the genius of Bach and Handel. Delight in The Magnificat in D Major in all its choral and orchestral glory. This is Bach at his most joyous. Then savor his iconic Orchestral Suite No. 3.

A collection of Handel's finest arias will be sung by Orlando native and Rollins alumnus Brennan Hall. Brennan won first prize in the International Countertenor Vocal Competition at Havana's Les Voix Humaines Festival in 2015 and has been praised for his "remarkably rich voice … and admirable musical intelligence." (San Francisco Classical Voice)

Tickets start at $15

Thursday, February 29, 2024

7:30PM - 9:00PM - Insights and Sounds: Literary Folk Songs and Fairy Tales

John V. Sinclair, conductor, Bach Festival Orchestra

Clara Rottsolk, soprano; Amanda Crider, mezzo soprano; John Grau, tenor; Brandon Hendrickson, bass

The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion was composed by David Lang, inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story, and influenced by Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Aesop's Fables, by Richard Maltz, offers important life lessons while describing the "world of childhood."

Tickets start at $15

Sunday, March 3, 2024

3:00PM - 4:30PM - Rossini's Stabat Mater

John V. Sinclair, conductor, Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra

Clara Rottsolk, soprano; Amanda Crider, mezzo soprano; Jonathan Boyd, tenor; Brandon Hendrickson, bass

The 89th Annual Bach Festival concludes with an exciting pairing of a choral masterwork with an orchestral masterpiece. Rossini's Stabat Mater, his last large and important composition, features his operatic style with sacred text.

Tickets start at $15

Date: Feb 2-Mar 3, 2024

Location: Rollins College - Knowles Memorial Chapel, 1000 Holt Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789

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